CVE-2026-71312 (GCVE-0-2026-71312)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 20:37 – Updated: 2026-08-07 03:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rclone: PowerShell Smart-Quote Filename Injection Enables SFTP Server-Side Command Execution
Summary
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to v1.75.0, rclone interpolates remote SFTP paths into PowerShell hash commands in backend/sftp/sftp.go, and quoteOrEscapeShellPath escapes only ASCII apostrophe even though PowerShell treats U+2018, U+2019, U+201A, and U+201B as single-quote delimiters, allowing an attacker-controlled filename to terminate the intended path literal and append PowerShell statements that execute as the victim SSH account when server-side hashing is invoked. This issue is fixed in v1.75.0.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-06 00:00 UTC
CWE
- CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/rclone/rclone/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/e122fba1a… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/rclone/rclone/releases/tag/v1.75.0 | x_refsource_MISC |
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